The House - TB 16 (BMWTD #8)

Today I went to TB 16. There are a lot of these 'TB' buildings, so I went and looked up what it meant. Apparently, TB means 'Temporary Building, but from the looks of it, TB 16 is not that temporary.

TB 16 is also known as 'The House'. I don't know why they went with such a generic name, but maybe they wanted the place to feel like home.

The House is the home of a confidential student-run peer counseling center that offers free services to UC Davis students.

I came to the building from a back road, so I got to see everything that was behind the building...

...including a chicken pen. Apparently next door to the house, a group of students are trying to promote sustainability and are raising chickens. I'll probably learn more about the chickens when I visit a different building.

The House provides a drop-in center where you can just 'drop in' and get help.

Unfortunately, the drop in center was under construction, so I don't know how students are currently dropping in.

Anyway, I took a picture, but I have a kind of derp face on. I was probably in a rush.

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Nova Hall - Reagan (BMWTD #7)

Today I went to Nova Hall, which is one of the seven residence halls in the Reagan Hall complex. 

Reagan Hall is part of the Segundo Residence Area, but it thinks its so cool that it gets in own complex of buildings. All the buildings that you can see in the above picture are from Reagan. 

It didn't take me that long to get to Nova Hall because I also live in Segundo, and this Nova is just down the road from my own building.

Nova is pretty nice and has this little bike rack area in front of it. Its also cool that I'm actually able to walk all the way around the building.

I wasn't able to get in because only residents of Nova Hall have keys to get into the building, but I was able to take a picture of their staircase through a window.

In the early afternoon, when I went to see Nova, there aren't that many people walking around, so I was able to smile for the camera.

On my trip, I also saw this one orange cone telling everybody not to walk on the pile of dirt because, you know, you would ruin the pile of dirt if you walked on it.

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Surge II (BMWTD #6)

Today I actually went to a building that was open to the public: Surge II. There are other Surge buildings, including Surge III and Surge IV, but I can't figure out why they are called Surge.

Surge II is located near the center of campus and is the home of the Academic Technology Services, which provides creative and technical support services to campus.

I'm not going to lie, the first time I went to visit Surge II, I forgot my memory card for my camera, so I had to go back across campus to my dorm, get the card, then come back to Surge II.

The Surge is nice, though, because unlike some of the other buildings, I could go all the way around it without hopping any fences or going into off-limits areas. I took a picture of the back of the building just to show you that I was actually able to go there.

As I stated earlier, Surge II is open to the public and I was able to take a look inside. You can always tell a friendly place when they have smiling pumpkins everywhere and a sign that says 'ASYLUM' hanging on the wall.

And, as always, I took a picture of me and the building. I am displaying what I like to call my 'Flat Smile', but don't judge. You're lucky I even smiled at all. This building had bikers all around it, all of them ready to give me a funny look at a moment's notice.

I also saw the most interesting golf cart ever. It had doors, a trailer, and it was completely electric. You can even see the extension chord that's recharging it in the picture above.

I also saw the UPS Truck. I have an issue with this UPS truck because when I went to see the Environmental Services Faculty Headquarters, this truck honked at me for being in a parking lot. I wasn't even biking slowly or anything. I just want the world to know how terrible this UPS truck is, even if it does run on natural gas.

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The Rifle Range (BMWTD #5)

So, today I went to the Rifle Range. It used to be an actually rifle range and armory for the ROTC, but now it is part of the business office for facilities management.

See, I randomized the list of building I am going to visit so I get a new and different one each day, but it seems like all the buildings I'm visiting are off limits. This building was down a street that said "Wrong Way" and then is almost entirely surrounded by a metal fence.

The front looks all nice and inviting, but it was surrounded by fences on this side too. (You can barely see the building on this side, but its down the the street and on the left.

To get a closer look at the building, I went around back, where I went up this sketchy dirt road to get the the building.

I got close enough to see the building, but it looked even sketchier than the road.

I mean the building had holes in it and everything. I started to question whether they really had an office in there at all.

But I took my picture with the building all the same. I had to take the picture at a distance because some guys were looking at me funny, but I still wanted to smile in the picture.

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Environmental Services Faculty Headquarters (BMWTD #4)

The other day, I went to the Environmental Services Faculty Headquarters, which is basically what it sounds like. All the faculty of the Environmental Service at Davis have their Headquarters in this building. 

This is the farthest building I've been out to see so far. It was seriously surrounded by dirt. Just dirt.

The building itself was in an oasis of trees. In the dirt.

The front door looked real nice. It had these cool pillars and windows and everything.

The rest of the building was slightly underwhelming in terms of architecture.

The building was off limits to people like me, and I couldn't even bike all the way around it because the area was fenced off except for the road in the picture above, and even that was restricted access.

I took a picture of myself. I don't know if I was smiling or anything, so it looks like I can only go two days while smiling for pictures. Sorry...

There were also a cell tower or two. I don't know what they were for, so I'm just assuming their broadcasting communist propaganda. 

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Tupper Hall (BMWTD #3)

Today, I decided to visit Tupper Hall. Tupper Hall holds offices, laboratories, and animal holding facilities for departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Surgical and Radiological Sciences.

It took me a while to get to the building, mainly because this blue sign. I had to park at a distance, lock up my bike, and walk to the hall.

I made it to the hall eventually and found out  that it was named after some guy named C. John Tupper, who, apparently, was the founding dean of the School of Medicine.

The building itself is pretty cool. It's sort of sunken into the ground and is all glass and concrete.

It was a weekend when I visited this building, so, once again, the building was all locked up. I wasn't sure if it was closed, though, because all the lights in the building were on and I was pretty sure I saw someone leave the building while I was there.

There were these suspicious pipes right by the door, and I was even more suspicious because normally, you don't put the pipes with the big red warning tags in places where people usually go, like through the door.

Anyway, I took a picture of myself in front of the building, and, as you can see, happy me has returned for a sequel. Let's see how long happy me can stick around.

I also found a sort of a bicycle graveyard. It was just a bunch of bikes, but none of them were parked normal. This one was popping an eternal wheelie. Another one was lying on the ground, and there was a third one that was upside down for some reason.

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Western Center for Agricultural Equipment (BMWTD #2)

For my second building to visit at UC Davis, I decided to go to the Western Center for Agricultural Equipment (WCAE). This building is where many courses on Applied Biological Systems Technology are taught.

So all of the 258 buildings I am going to visit, excluding those in Cuarto, are supposed to be within the UC Davis limits, but apparently, the WCAE is not on campus because when I returned, I saw the sign above.

Anyway, I continued my journey off-campus. I actually had to go across the highway to get to where the building was located, on Hills Drive. Although I was sort of lost, I took a nice picture of the sunset.

When I was almost to the WCAE, the road was blocked by a fence with a menacing red diamond, so I maneuvered my bike around the fence, parked it, then went back around the fence to take a picture.

I was slightly worried that I wasn't supposed to go past the menacing red diamond, so I didn't go far after going around it. I did see the building, but from a distance. In the picture above, it's the big warehouse-looking building.

I did see one example of the Agricultural Equipment mentioned, but I must say, it wasn't in the best of conditions.

I took a picture of myself with the WCAE in the background, and this time, no guy on a bike was looking at me funny, so I actually allowed myself to smile.

Though seeing the building and the menacing red diamond was fun, the highlight of the trip by far was seeing the great big pile of tumble weeds by the side of the road across from the building, so I took a picture of them, then made my way back to campus.

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